Description
This dataset provides the hourly average of continuous atmospheric measurements of methane (CH4) from two urban sites and three boundary sites in and around Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., from September 2012-May 2020, measured with Picarro cavity ring down spectrometers (CRDS). Five-minute average atmospheric measurements of ethane (C2H6) and methane at Copley Square in Boston, MA, are also provided, with ethane measured with a laser spectrometer and methane measured with a Picarro CRDS. Background CH4 concentrations for the urban sites were determined using Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model trajectories at the boundary of the study region based on measurements at three boundary sites and wind direction from the North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM) 12-kilometer meteorology.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get a related visualization | PNG | Map of measurement stations in the Boston network. The black line demarcates the 90 km radius circle in which emissions were optimized and the dashed line bounds the urban domain for study. The blue shading represents the number of housing units with natural gas (NG) per square kilometer. The red and blue contour encloses 50% of the average footprint (sensitivity area) initiated at the COP and BU sites, respectively. Source: Sargent et al. (2021) | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | Methane and Ethane Observations for Boston, MA, 2012-2020: Methane_Ethane_MA_NH.pdf | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |